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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-5629</article-id>
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<article-title>Using 1 second LEO clock corrections for the Fengyun-3E radio occultation retrievals</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Xinyu</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1487-7842</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ding</surname>
<given-names>Wenwu</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Meng</surname>
<given-names>Xiangguang</given-names>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Li</surname>
<given-names>Ying</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Liu</surname>
<given-names>Yan</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Yuan</surname>
<given-names>Yunbin</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Precision Geodesy, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China</addr-line>
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<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>25</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>22</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Xinyu Zhang et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>&lt;span&gt;Clock offset constitutes a major error source for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) products, particularly for stratospheric observations. The adoption of high-rate clock correction strategy can effectively mitigate clock offset induced err&lt;/span&gt;o&lt;span&gt;rs. In this study, high-rate (1-s) undifferenc&lt;/span&gt;ed&lt;span&gt; (UD) Low Earth Orbit (LEO) clock corrections are used to retrieve RO observations from the Fengyun&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span&gt;3E (FY-&lt;/span&gt;3E&lt;span&gt;) satellite. The retrieval results are compared with those derived from the conventional 30&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span&gt;s clock correction scheme and the single-difference (SD) scheme currently adopted in the official data processing. The results demonstrate that the 1-s LEO clock correction scheme improves the overall quality of FY-&lt;/span&gt;3E&lt;span&gt; RO retrievals. For bending angle, the most prominent improvements are found in the altitude range of 40-60 km. Globally, its systematic difference is roughly 3% smaller than that of the 30-s scheme and 1% smaller than the SD scheme. Such superiority further propagates downward to refractivity and dry temperature. For refractivity, &lt;/span&gt;the &lt;span&gt;largest improvements are also found in the altitude range of 40-60 km with systematic differences for the 1-s UD scheme reduced by approximately 0.5% relative to the other two schemes. Standard deviations of the 1-s scheme remain consistently smaller across the complete height range. Standard deviations of dry temperature are also improved with standard deviations about 0.5% smaller than SD and 1% to 2% smaller than the 30-s scheme in the altitude range from 0-40 km. The results in this study demonstrate the capability of using 1-s clock correction scheme for further promoting Fengyun GNSS Occultation Sounder&lt;/span&gt;-II (&lt;span&gt;GNOS-II&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;span&gt; RO observations. The results here can provide support for future operational processing and archive reprocessing of all Fengyun GNSS occultation datasets.&lt;/span&gt;</p>
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<funding-source>National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
<award-id>42474063</award-id>
<award-id>U2542214</award-id>
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<funding-source>National Key Research and Development Program of China</funding-source>
<award-id>2023YFA1009100</award-id>
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